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Fish hitches ride on 2011 tsunami debris, arrives in Washington state

Allen Pleus / Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP

A striped beakfish swims in a water-filled well or bait box, March 22, aboard a 20-foot-long Japanese boat that washed ashore recently at Long Beach, Wash. Biologists say five of the fish, plus other Japanese species of sea creatures, arrived alive, apparently hitching a ride across the Pacific Ocean on debris believed to have come from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami.

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